You already know that Aspose.Words can convert DOC, DOCX, ODT, etc to PDF very well, but you might be wondering can it convert it the other way around?

The answer is yes. But you need to use our specialized and “experimental” product Aspose.Recognition for .NET. It can convert PDF to any document format supported by Aspose.Words, that are DOC, DOCX, ODT, MHTML, and others.

If you are interested, Aspose.Recognition internally consists of a PDF parsing module, an artificial intelligence … Continue Reading

You might be wondering, Aspose.Words for .NET 7.0 is barely 2 months old and we already have 8.0, a major version change? Yes, and that change reflects the importance of one feature that we have finally added.

You now can just design a template document like this:

MERGEFIELD TableStart:Orders
…
    MERGEFIELD TableStart:OrderDetails
    …
    MERGEFIELD TableEnd:OrderDetails
MERGEFIELD TableEnd:Orders

and then call

doc.MailMerge.ExecuteWithRegions(myDataSet); <br>

and Aspose.Words will do its magic to produce an order document. Then you can of course

doc.Save(myStream, SaveFormat.Pdf);<br>

etc.

Aspose.Words’ … Continue Reading

When exporting RDL reports to Microsoft Word documents, you can configure the export by specifying different configuration settings. You can control document layout, page breaks, page orientation, and so on.

There is one noticeable drawback, though. You can only configure the export at a Reporting Services instance level. That means you modify the rsreportserver.config file and it affects all the reports processed by the instance. But what if you have a single report that, for example, contains a text on top of an image and … Continue Reading

Many customers have requested the following features over time:

1. Make sure Aspose.Words does not lose mail merge data source settings in a document during open/save or conversion.
2. Ability to specify a mail merge data source for a document programmatically.
3. Ability to query or clear mail merge settings specified in a document.

We are happy to tell that we have implemented this. We have added the Document.MailMergeSettings property and MailMergeSettings, Odso, OdsoFieldMapData, OdsoRecipientData classes.

The current plan is … Continue Reading